Ixodes nairobiensis Nuttall, 1916

Guglielmone, Alberto A., Petney, Trevor N. & Robbins, Richard G., 2020, Ixodidae (Acari: Ixodoidea): descriptions and redescriptions of all known species from 1758 to December 31, 2019, Zootaxa 4871 (1), pp. 1-322 : 49-50

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4871.1.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C21A719F-9A6B-4227-8386-1AFA22620614
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4576490
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scientific name	Ixodes nairobiensis Nuttall, 1916
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156. Ixodes nairobiensis Nuttall, 1916 View in CoL .

An Afrotropical species whose females and the undescribed nymph have been found on Soricomorpha : Soricidae ; females alone have been collected from Artiodactyla : Bovidae and Suidae , Carnivora : Canidae , Herpestidae and Viverridae , and Rodentia : Muridae . There are no records of Ixodes nairobiensis causing human parasitism.

M: unknown

F: Nuttall (1916)

N: undescribed; see note below

L: unknown

Redescriptions

F: Hoogstraal (1956a), Arthur (1959, 1965), Elbl and Anastos (1966b), Matthysse and Colbo (1987)

Note: the larva and nymph of Ixodes nairobiensis are listed as described in Camicas et al. (1998), but there are no formal descriptions of those stages.